September so far

I decided to do a quick blog post on what I've been up to so far this month! Here are some pictures I found on the camera so I thought they'd made a fun blogpost.

New to Old

Janeal, Mom, and I went up to Artist Point to hike to table mountain. It was all fun until I got home and realized I'd lost my little phone that I used like an iPod while sliding down one of the hills. That was pretty disappointing. 

The view

We were all about those shortcuts

The four of us get to be part of the Christmas Eve service this year! I thought all these notebooks with our names on them were fun because it means we all get to do it!

Ya know...making a s'more over a candle is totally normal....

Man on a mission. Who cares that his pants were getting wet. 

Fishing at the river!

That little smile is so adorable!!

Zach wanted to take the twins and himself fishing, but we didn't end up catching anything...

And of course....school.

Memorial day camping trip

This past Memorial day, all of the siblings decided to have a camping trip in the woods behind Michael's house. It ended up only being Michael, Zach, the twins, William, and me staying overnight in the tents we had set up, but I even ended up leaving to go sleep at Michael's house around 12:30. So I'll try to tell what we did through these pictures. :)

We got to the campsite around 4ish and took several trips down the steep hill and through the brush to our 'campsite'. See that picnic table? We were wondering where we were going to set all our food and Michael was like, "I have a few boards up at my house that I can go get." So he went running off. Pretty soon I heard him come crashing back and when I looked over, he had this picnic table all thrown over his head. Zach was like, "Yep, that's a few boards!" We were laughing about that. 

Emily and Jeffrey ended up joining us for dinner so that was fun. 

After dinner, we headed over to the river to do some kayaking. I didn't kayak but Michael and William did. I took lots of pictures of Emily and Jeffrey instead. :)

Nooksack river

Michael and William

Hahaha, they wanted an awkward picture and I love this. They both look so funny and awkward! :)

Better

Then we saw an eagle with a fish...

Once we were done kayaking, we went back to have some s'mores.

The food table. Trust me, we had a lot of food...:)

Okay, I just think that this picture of Benjamin is sooooo adorable. Look at his little face. Oh ya, its an okay picture of Emily and Jeffrey too. ;)

The next morning! Tommy, Janeal, Emily, and Jeffrey left after we had s'mores because they were busy with other thing/didn't want to camp. That was okay because I ended up getting a whole tent to myself. Well...until 12:20. Benjamin started throwing up because he ate to much and I freaked out because I always do when someone starts throwing up so I went back up to Michael's house and slept there until morning. Anyways, I came back down and the boys wanted to go see the water so I took them there. We were playing a game where we had to hit that big rock out in the water that you see. That was actually where I was standing when I took those pictures of Jeffrey and Emily the night before. :)

These two. They are so adorable. Oh, here is a cute story. We went back and were eating breakfast and it had already started to rain but it wasn't to bad yet, and plus we were under a lot of trees so we weren't getting to wet yet. Eventually it started to rain harder so I found Alexander's baseball hat and put it on. He noticed I was wearing it and came and took it off and told me it was his hat. So I started to make up this sad story about how I was going to get all wet and how I really needed to wear his hat because I didn't have a hood like he did. I think he was starting to feel a little sorry for me, but it didn't last long because he wanted to keep that hat. Pretty soon though, Benjamin comes walking over to me and pulls out his hood so that we could both be under it. It was soo cute! He was like, "We can share!" It was so thoughtful of him. I love watching how those two act and trying to figure out their personalities. :) 

That was about it for the camping trip. After breakfast, we took several trips up the hill with all our stuff. I got pretty wet and dirty so I was thankful to go home and clean myself up. Later on in the afternoon, William, Janeal, and I went play games with some our friends and that was a lot of fun. Then I finished the day by watching YouTubes of military men coming home and surprising their families. I had a fun memorial day. I'm so thankful for the people who gave their lives for America's freedom. And here is a picture that really made me think of how some people who have lost their loved ones must feel on a day like memorial day:

Friday Look back

    Something Fun: looking at Janeal's phone pictures and finding this one from our hike up to Church mountain. Good times P.S. see that hill we are climbing up? That is how most of the hike was. It was one of the most intense hikes I've done in awhile.

 Something Awkward: I found this lady bug on my shirt and took a picture of it. Well, I was going to flick it off afterward I took the picture, but getting sidetrack, I forgot. Later I looked down and noticed the lady bug was gone. "It must have fallen off by its self," I thought. I went outside and was taking some other pictures when I walked over to the garage to see William. He was showing me something and said,"Theres a lady bug on your shirt right there," and pointed to the neck area of my shirt. I started screaming and trying my hardest to shake my shirt and wiggle around so the lady bug would get off me. The whole time I was screaming and saying, "Help me, William!!!" He wasn't very comforting because he was just standing there watching me freak out. But, he did inform me that it went down my shirt. That really freaked me out and I was about to run inside to find it, when I looked down and saw it. I flicked it off and breathed a sigh of relief. I thought it was really funny because I'm usually not that freaked out by a bug, but the thought of it crawling down your shirt is really freaky.

 Something exciting: Seeing these beautiful flowers every morning. Michael brought home some crab apple branches from a job he was working on so we got some pretty flowers. I love this weather thats making everything blossom, but I'm wondering how long it will last.

Something Fun again: Going through Janeal's pictures and finding this one. This pictures was taken a while ago when the 4 younger kids were at Zach and Karin's for the evening. Karin and the boys had gone to bed, so Zach brought out the candles and s'more ingredients and we roasted marshmallows over candles while playing balderdash. It was really funny

Something Cute: Mom and I were bringing the boys to my piano lessons because Mom was watching them for Karin and somehow or other we started talking about Michael. I asked the boys, "Do you think Michael is a big boy?" and Benjamin was like, "Ya, Michael big, big, big, big, boy!! And big truck!"